After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World

Anyway, despite all the worries, some predetermined things shall still commence.

For example, another mass wedding was scheduled. They had set out to do this every 3 months or so and had seen quite a few successes.

Mathilda was not joking when she said she wanted more children running around…

There were also plenty of individual weddings, of course, but for now some felt more fun to do it with friends, but they were the minority.

After moving to Xeno, some things began to change. For example, the majority of the married couples in Alterra were actually products of the Mass Weddings instead.

Mass weddings were mostly sponsored by the territory, and they only had to pay a small administration fee and a few more add-ons, depending on the number of guests they wanted to invite.

After registering, all they had to worry about was their attire and who to invite to occupy the 10 free slots for guests the territory allowed. They also need to determine the budget they would need if they wanted to invite more people, because they would have to pay for those—and they wouldn’t be cheap.

Most importantly: They would be able to save money to splurge on the honeymoon! It was just too practical.

So… it was not a surprise that slots in Mass Wedding were all filled up for the next year.

Anyway, one of the pairs to be married in this batch was Troy and Brenda.

Troy’s proposal was quite famous.

Some time ago, he proposed to her using his polypolo, he fired it in a cleared area. There was a banner hanging on the projectile, asking Brenda if she could be his wife. If things went as planned, Brenda would see a flying banner with the words cut the sky above her.

Sadly, Brenda missed it the first time though because she happened to look away at the exact moment.

Troy then made an impromptu performance to distract her, and the second attempt flew over his head from the correct angle, making it even more romantic (and sillier) than originally planned.

The wedding itself was put on hold. They waited until her dad arrived to move to Alterra, which took a while because there was a lot of convincing to do. Plus, after convincing, they also had a few assets to sell as well.

Her father arrived with the exodus of tourists after the upgrade and it was a touching reunion. Admittedly, there seemed to have been some awkwardness between Troy and his prospective father-in-law, but he managed to win him over the same way he won over Brenda: With his passion for weapons.

Now... there were times Brenda felt she was the third wheel, instead.

In any case, the family dynamic was really enviable, particularly for aborigine women who did not have nearly as much support Brenda did growing up.

Brenda’s father was one of the rare open-minded people in this world, otherwise, Brenda—a woman—would not have had the opportunity to awaken a profession in the first place.

She had a good father and a good husband; how many people would even wish for one of those and didn’t get it?

Another pair was, interestingly, Tom and Betty.

That one caused quite a commotion among Betty’s fanboys, who called themselves the Golden Hearts.

The couple started going steady a few months ago.

When news spread, there were a lot of challenges sent to Tom every day. Some were more blatant, sending challenges in the sparring rings, while some would be a bit more subtle. For example, challenging him in a basketball game or in squash or whatever.

Oftentimes, they would open up bets like ’lose and you’ll leave Betty’ and so on.

Of course, Tom was clear he’d never use Betty as a bet. ”She is her own person,” he would tell them. ”If she wants to leave me for someone more capable, I will accept, but I will sure do my best to make it work—to get her to willingly stay with me no matter what.”

Betty fell harder for him even more because of this, and some fanboys ended up being ashamed of their archaic thinking.

Of course, even after so many months, there were still some persistent jerks though they didn’t use Betty as a bet anymore. In their minds, they just wanted to ’punish’ the excessively lucky bastard!

The thing was, Tom was soft-spoken but he was surprisingly impressive in sports. So… he won all those sports-related challenges with flying colors.

A lot of people also worried Tom would get sabotaged when he went out hunting.

They could already imagine the drama: Someone would lure him someplace dangerous and leave him there, or someone would literally stab him while he was distracted with a beast mob, or someone might push him in the path of sentry arrows!

People’s imaginations ran wild with that one.

Fortunately, it was mostly harmless so nothing got too dangerous in the end.

Anyway, Tom proposed to his then-girlfriend in a quiet environment. This happened a few weeks back and the next thing everyone knew, they were signing up for the next mass wedding.

Another unlikely pair was the architect-trainee Nina and the aborigine Madon, who had finally upgraded to a Class D weaponsmith after months straight of hard work and study.

The two met in the library where they poured themselves into learning every breathing chance they had outside of work hours.

After weeks, they started noticing the other there. They didn’t know when it started but, at some point, if one arrived after the other, the other would choose the nearest available seat.

They eventually shared the two ends of a large table until one day, someone asked what the other was reading, and their acquaintance—and eventual dating—started from there.

He proposed the day he upgraded as a Weaponsmith, because he felt he finally had the courage to say he could deserve the affections of such a great gal.

Chris and Aditi, on the other hand, decided to hold a private wedding to be held in a couple of days, probably after the next war.

They also considered joining the mass wedding, but her brothers were adamant about doing a traditional wedding for her, though they weren’t much practiced in modern Terran anymore.

Bianca and Eloi’s wedding was also in a mass wedding. However, the slot they got was the next one, so Eloi could only bite his handkerchief as they waited.

Other than the humans, there were also about a dozen goblin pairs, which had become a common sight in mass weddings now. It was adorable, and they really loved seeing it!

There was one pair everyone particularly looked forward to, though.

It was none other than Gochi and Maomao!

Their first half-orc married couple! So strong! So fluffy! So amazing!

Even the rough Baku sniffed a bit as he saw them dressed up for the occasion, and he sniffled when the two made their vows.

He couldn’t help but remember their poor states a few years ago, how they had to struggle to live, and how baseless their existence felt. They literally just let their lives pass by, wondering when it was time to finally expire.

Now… they were happy and even creating families!

They had long treated Alterra as their home, but this was the beginning of them literally planting their roots there.

How could he—the rough aggressive half-orc—not feel emotional?